Sentences with phrase «detect planetary magnetic fields»
«While WASP - 12b is far too hot to support life, being able to detect planetary magnetic fields will help with our understanding of and identifying the habitable zones around exoplanets,» says Joseph Llama, a Ph.D. student on Vidotto's team.
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At the first close approach, instruments detected a magnetic field, to the great surprise of planetary geologists — Mercury's rotation was expected to be much too slow to generate a significant dynamo effect.